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Softball-sized hail pounded parts of Northwest Arkansas on Monday morning, shattering windshields and denting cars, said Pete Sydner, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Tulsa.

Thunderstorms moved quickly through the area in the morning, and by 3 p.m. Monday, a line of thunderstorms was moving across eastern Oklahoma heading east toward Arkansas. A second round was expected, with the potential to spawn tornadoes, but those chances dwindled by Monday night.

Travis Shelton, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in North Little Rock, said around 9 p.m. Monday that there was a chance for severe weather over the northwestern quarter of Arkansas, but a forecast showed the storms diminishing by the time they reached Perryville and Conway in the central part of the state.



Tennis ball size hail hits areas of Northwest Arkansas
Tennis ball size hail hits areas of Northwest Arkansas
A line of showers and an occasional thunderstorm were expected to move through the rest of the state, Shelton said.

Lance Pyle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in North Little Rock, said the Monday morning storms didn't reach the capital city, but the evening storms could.

Pyle said the nearest large hail from the Monday morning storm was in Jasper-- 140 miles north of Little Rock -- where it measured 1.5 inches in diameter.


Although the National Weather Service in North Little Rock previously said "an isolated tornado can not be ruled out" for the central part of the state Monday night, Shelton said shortly after 9 p.m. on Monday evening that tornadoes were no longer in the forecast.

The cold front will drop high temperatures in Little Rock from 82 degrees on Monday to 67 degrees by Friday, according to the forecast.

The National Weather Service in Memphis also issued a "hazardous weather outlook" Monday night for northeast Arkansas. There was a 70% chance of thunderstorms in Jonesboro, according to the forecast.